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PATENTED FEB. 27, 1906.

R. FEBLES.

TOOL. APPLICATION FILED 001'. 22. 1904.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented Feb. 27, 1906.

Application filed October 22, 1904:. Serial No. 229,663] 1 To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RAMON FEBLES, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Harrisburg, in the county of 5 Dauphin, State of Pennsylvania, have invented Certain new and useful Improvements in Tools, of which the following is 'a specification.

This invention relates to a tool especially adapted for use in the packing of cigars in boxes or in the subsequent handling of the 1 boxes.

The object of my invention is to provide a complete tool which will serve all the func- .tions of the various tools now used by cigar-- packers and furnish in one article an implement which will permit the packer to measure the depth and width of the box, to trim the cigars when necessary, and to serve as a hammer to close the box. 'ect of my invention is to pro A further ob vide a tool which when it is necessary to open the box willenable the user to easily sever the labels and revenue-stam to easily open the 'box, to remove the tac or brad therefrom, and to readily sever the ribbons with which the cigars are tied.

My invention therefore consists in the tool or implement as illustrated in the accompanying drawings and as will be hereinafter more particularly described and then definitely claimed at the end hereof.

In the drawings which accompany and form art of this application, Figure 1 is a side e levation of. my tool .with the blades partly opened and with arts broken away in order to show the locfiing device hereinafter referred to. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the same.

Referring to the drawin s, A and B represent the two blade s, whic may be pivoted together at C in the usual or ordinary manner.

One of these blades is pur osely made much longer than the other, as cl drawings, and that part of the longer blade which projects he 0nd the shorter blade is formed especially cigar-boxes and also serving to prevent the cigars from being injured in the cutting of the ribbons,

. This longer blade A is provided at one end with a tapering end a, which is of the shape shown in Fig. 2, so that it may be readily inserted between the lid and the box proper and the lid thereby opened. On one side of the longer blade A s a projection D, which to trim the tool .-to

early shownin the ,the box, and this or the purpose of openmg as will be hereinafter described.

provides the double function of preventing the point afrom entering too far into the box,

and thus bruising the cigars, and also serving the purpose of a hammer when itis desired A is also to again fasten the lid. The blade provided with a notch E for the purposev of withdrawing the tack or nailafter the lid is opened.

The blade B is provided at its point with a very sharp edge I), which is especially adapted to permit the user to run this edge through i the labels and feveriuestamp immediately.

between the lid over the line of separation This part b is of and the sides of the box.

necessity made very sharp, and in order to prevent it from in urmg-the user when the tool is used to pry open the lids of the boxes I employ a spring actuated lock. in Fig. 1 This lock comprises a bolt F, working in a slot in the handle G, the bolt being provided with a finger H, by which it may be operated. When itis desired that this bolt shall not be in operative position, the operatordraws the finger H backward and into the right-angled slot I, (shown in Fig. 2,) and the bolt is withdrawn,as shown in Fig. 1.

(Shown When itis desired to lock the two blades of the tool in their closed positions',-all the operator has to do is to close the blades and then release the finger h, when the bolt will pass Linto the bolt opening, (indicated at K v in dotted lines in Fig. 1.) g

I have mentioned that one blade is purposely made muchlonger than the other and that this is done for two purposesthe first be used as a box-opener, and, second, for the purpose of resting the longer blade on one edge of the box while the operator inserts the shorter blades between the cigars, and thereb cuts the ribbons. By resting the longer bla e on the opposite edge of the box the tool is steadied, so thatthereis no danger of cutting any of the cigars.

In packing cigars it is sometimes necessary to temporarily insert a tack in the bottom of withdrawn. I readily done, I form two slots L and M iii the handles of the blades, so that-either oneof these handles may be inserted in the box and the tack easily withdrawn. This permits the operator to withdraw a tack from the tack afterward has to be In order to permit this to be bottom of the box even when the tack is in the corner of the box and in such a position as would prevent the user from with rawing the tack by using the tack-puller E in the blade A.

. der that different-sized tacks two, of these being for small-sized tacks and It will also b observed thatthe slots E, L, and M are of different sizes in ormay be pulled,

the other for larger ones. It will also be ob served that the point a is sufficiently broad to be used'as a screw-driver'when necessary and owing to the fact that it is quite thin it can also be inserted in the box for the purpose of pressing the front side of the box outward, which is often necessary in packing cigars. When this blade is used to open the box, as before described, the projection D, which is so situated that it is between the fingers and the box, prevents the blade from entering so far as to allow the fingers on the hand from contacting with the front of the box. Thus the hand is not liable to receive splinters from a rough box or be torn by a projecting tack. The edge I) of the other lade is formed into afile, which is often found handy during the operation of packing I longer bla cigars. The end I) of this be found very useful in scraping -ofi the colormarks from the box'when it is necessary to change the marks duringthe operation of packing the cigars.

From the foregoing and the accompanying drawings it will be seen that I h duced a tool which inaddition to formin eflective pair of scissors will also begreat service to cigar-packers and also to'those employed in cigar-stores, where it is necessame blade will also .sary to constantly open cigar-boxes for the sale of ci ars.

What claim as new is 1. As a new article of manufacture, a tool or implement comprising a pair of scissors .havmg blades of different length, the shorter provided with an acting end, the e being tapered to act as a boxopener, anyla stop on the longer blade whose stop-face 1s forward of the cutting-terminal of the shorter blade when closed, whereby the same is protected, substantially as described.

2 As a new article of manufacture, a tool or rmplementeomprising a pair of scissors hBJVlIIi blades of different length, the shorter blade ein provided with an acting end, the longer bla e being tapered to act as a boxopener, a stop on the "longer blade whose stop-face is forward of the cuttin -terminal of the. shorter blade when closed, w ereby the same is protected, and releasable means-for blade b61115 found of stantially as described.

3. -As a new-article of manufacture, a tool or implement com rising a pair of scissors having blades" of digerent length, the shorter blade bein provided with an acting'end, the longer bla e being tapered to act as a boxopener, and a stop on the lonfger blade hav-* ing a flat face and whose stopthe ends of the blades when closed, whereby the shorter blade ,is protected, substantially as described. r i

or implement comprising a pair of scissors havin blades of different length, the shorter blade ein provided with an acting end, the longer bla e, being tapered to act as a box-' opener, a stop on the longer blade having a fiat face and whose stop-face is between the ends of the blades when closed, whereby the shorter blade is protected, and releasable means for locking the blades inclosed position, substantially as described.

a new article of manufacture, a tool or implement comprising a pair of scissors having one of its at its outer end a cutting edge, and means for locking the blades closed, substantially as described.

6. As a new article of manufacture, a tool or implement comprising a pair of scissors ace is between locking the blades in closed position; sub- 4. As a new article of.manufacture,.a tool blades longer than the other, the shorter blade having having one of its blades longer than the other,

the shorter blade being springactuated bolt arranged to lock the ades closed, substantially as described.

sharpened, and a 17. As a new article, of manufacture, atool or implement comprising a pair of scissors having one of its blades longer than the other, the shorter blade having its end sharpened, andfla sprin actuated bolt for locking said blades close substantially as described,

1 8. As a new article of manufacture, a tool or implement comprisin with one blade longer longer blade having a tapering end. adapted to opening boxes, and the other a sharpened end adapting it to cut the labels,;and means for locking the two blades .closed, 'substantially as described. Signed by. me at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, this 20th dayof October, 1904.

. I RAMON FEBLES. v Witnesses:

.DANIEL S. SErrz. p Y CHARLES C. STROH.

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